Honduras: Indigenous people condemn plot

Posted with permission from Green Left Weekly Dandelion Salad Green Left June 28, 2009 The article below is abridged from a June 24 statement by the Civic Council of People’s and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH). COPINH condemns before national and world public opinion the attempted coup launched during the night of June 24 against [...]

Debt Deflation in America – What the Jump in the U.S. Savings Rate Really Means by Michael Hudson

Dandelion Salad by Michael Hudson Global Research, June 29, 2009 Happy-face media reporting of economic news is providing the usual upbeat spin on Friday’s debt-deflation statistics. The Commerce Department’s National Income and Product Accounts (NIPA) for May show that U.S. “savings” are now absorbing 6.9 percent of income. I put the word “savings” in quotation [...]

An Obama Limerick by Ed Ciaccio

by Ed Ciaccio Dandelion Salad Featured Writer June 29, 2009 Our President, Mr. Obama, Governs with cool, never drama. His sweet words can thrill, But his policies kill. Fine language won’t hide bloody trauma. Pakistan Calls for End to Drone Strikes After US Attack on Funeral http://news.antiwar.com/2009/06/25/pakistan-expresses-concern-after-us-drone-attack-on-funeral/ 687 civilians have been killed in 60 drone [...]

The Truth Alone Will Not Set You Free by Chris Hedges

by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig June 29, 2009 The ability of the corporate state to pacify the country by extending credit and providing cheap manufactured goods to the masses is gone. The pernicious idea that democracy lies in the choice between competing brands and the freedom to accumulate vast sums of personal [...]

US war games signal intensifying tension over Arctic

Dandelion Salad By Niall Green www.wsws.org 29 June 2009 In more ways than one, things are heating up in the Arctic. Several large military exercises undertaken by the United States and members of the US-led military alliance NATO are proof of growing tensions between the major powers. The stakes involved in the Arctic are enormous. [...]